Strale

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: Beam, ray (e.g. of light)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Strale is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 37K(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 180K
  • NONorway1 in 497K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

278 people

Sources
42 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

singular present subjunctive of stralen

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

How Strale is read(measured from records)

Strale is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English51%

    Beam, ray (e.g. of light)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • French27%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Strale in French.

  • Dutch12%

    singular present subjunctive of stralen

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish6.5%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Strale in Spanish.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Strale counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Strale is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden2781 in 37K278Strale5
BE Belgium651 in 180K65Strale15
US United States≈22 est.≈1 in 15MlistedStrale42
NO Norway111 in 497K11—1
GB United Kingdom≈7 est.≈1 in 9.3M—Strale2

278 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling stråle. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Strale is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium

    Also written Stråle

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Chile, United States, Argentina

    Also written Stråle

  • Slovenian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Serbia

    Languages: Slovenian, Serbian

    Also written Страле, Štrāle

  • Swedish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden

    Also written Stråle, Straale

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Stråle

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Stråle

  • Latvian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Also written Štrāle

13 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Strale is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, arrow, dart, thunderbolt

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In dum, arrow

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Strale
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200865#21,649
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Strale come from?
singular present subjunctive of stralen Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What does the name Strale mean?
In English, Beam, ray (e.g. of light)
What are other forms of the name Strale?
In the etymology graph, Strahl is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Strale have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 278 people named Strale, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled strale.
Where is Strale most common?
Strale is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 37 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Strale?
In Sweden, the national register counted 278 people named Strale, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.

What do you want to know about Strale?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/strale

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Strale”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Strale parses inside a full name →